from pillar to post
Adverb
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Adverb
from pillar to post
- (idiomatic) From one place (or person, or task) to another; from post to pillar, hither and thither.
- 2003, Joan Steinau Lester, Fire in My Soul: Eleanor Holmes Norton, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, ISBN 978-0-7434-0787-8; republished New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, January 2004, ISBN 978-0-7434-0788-5, page 263:
- We campaigned like hell. On election day we went from pillar to post begging people to support us.
- 2003, Joan Steinau Lester, Fire in My Soul: Eleanor Holmes Norton, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, ISBN 978-0-7434-0787-8; republished New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, January 2004, ISBN 978-0-7434-0788-5, page 263:
- German: von Pontius zu Pilatus
- Russian: туда-сюда
- Spanish: ir de Herodes a Pilatos, de ceca en meca
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